Carriage-bow-repairing device.



D. W. WILSON,

GARRIAGBBOW REPAIRING DEVICE.

APPLIOATIOIT FILED APR. 27, 1908.'

Patented M31222, 1910.

MEQN NEE n O S W T Nm Md WW W .i n a D WITNESSES:

A TTORNE V ANDREW B, GRAHAM c0 PHOTO-LITHUGRAPHERS, WASHINGTON, n.6

DAVID WILLIAM WILSON, 0F SPOKANE, WASHINGTON.

CARRIAGE-BOW-REPAIBING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 22, 1910.

Application filed April 27, 1908. Serial No. 429,574.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID WILLIAM IL- SON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Spokane, in the count-y of Spokane and State of \Vashington, have invented a new and useful Garriage-Bow-Repairing Device, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in devices for repairing bows of buggies, carriages, automobiles, and the like, wherein. a socket receives and incloses the broken end or ends of the bow, and secures the same together or to the bow-socket; and the object of my improvement is to provide a means for repairing a brokenbow without removing and replacing it with anew bow. I attain this object by the device illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figures 1, 2 and 8 show difierent forms of the device used to attach a broken bow to the bow-socket, and Fig. 1 shows the application of Fig. 1.

Similar characters of reference refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In repairing a bow broken at or near the point where the bow joins the bow-socket, I use one of the forms of my repairing device shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3. The socket 1 (Figs. 1, 2 and 3) is designed to take the place of the original bow-socket, which is filled with the end of the broken bow. To one end of this socket is attached a projection, such as a tongue 2, Fig. 1; a screw 3, Fig. 2; or flanges 4t, Fig. 3. This projection is forged to or attached solidly to the socket. The end of the broken bow remaining in the bow-socket is cut off flush with the end of the bow-socket. The end of the broken bow is shaped so as to fit tightly when driven into the repair socket, and is made of such a length that when the repairsocket is in place it will fill the space of the portion of the bow taken out. The repairsocket is fastened solidly to the bow-socket. Three ways of making this attachment are shown in the drawing, but I do not desire to limit myself to the particular forms shown. If Fig. 1 is used the wedge-shaped projection 2 is driven into the end of the bow remaining in the bow-socket; if Fig. 2 is used. the projection 3 is screwed into it; and if Fig. 3 is used, the flanges 4t are driven between the end of the bow remaining in the bow-socket and the bow-socket. After the repair-socket is in place, the end of the bow is then driven and fastened into the repairsocket in the usual manner. The repairsocket may be made in various lengths and shapes to meet different requirements.

Fig. 4 is a cross-section of a portion of a bow and bow-socket after having been repaired by repair-socket shown in Fig. 1. 5 is the end of the bow fitted into the repairsocket 1, and 2 is the wedge-shaped tongue driven into the end of the broken bow 7 re maining in the bow-socket 6.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. The combination with a carriage bow and bow-socket of a carriage bow repairing device consisting of a socket, and oppositely disposed means integral therewith to secure the socket to the filling of the bow-socket.

2. The combination with a carriage bow and bow-socket of a carriage bow repairing device consisting of a socket provided with an oppositely. disposed tongue at the end thereof adapted to be driven into the filling of the bow-socket.

3. The combination with a carriage bow' and bow-socket of a carriage bow repairing device consisting of a socket having a wedge shaped tongue projecting outwardly from the end thereof.

DAVID IVILLIAM WILSON.

lVitnesses:

JOHN B. JoHNsToN, CHAS. ALBERT l/VEBs'rnn. 

